Stuff We Liked: Holiday Edition

Merry Christmas! Er, Happy Holidays! Oh, I am so confused about what to say. Let’s see if some of the stuff we liked this week from around the web sorts it out.

FiveThirtyEight took an old survey of religious attitudes and overlaid it with regional preferences for the use of “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas.” The real surprise was that the latter was not preferred in the South. It asserts that in “nonreligious states” (whatever that means; it cites Oregon as an example), “seculars’ support for ‘happy holidays’ is the same as it is among evangelicals nationwide (48 percent).”